Im starting to rethink everything i know, please help me!

[Saber]

Ok i have always thought that Nitro and Compressed Air were two different things, i have never used Nitro but i assumed it was different. SO i have been looking on other sites for different air systems and many people have been putting Compressed Air and Nitro as the same thing, please tell me this is not true.


:Beep if you hate Smart Parts:

Smart Parts rep: We have a patent on that to kid!

[warpedx]

Their atomic construction is entirely different, but nothing you'd ever notice. They're mixed together in the air you breathe, and in the air you fill your tank with.

[JTp8ntballer12]

compressed air tanks and nitro tanks are the same thing

[PakmanRevd]

Nitrous Oxide is used in cars. Don't think that's the same thing.

Liquid Nitrogen??

I forgotted.. My brain is hurting

[firemedic30]

[QUOTE=Pakman{GB}]Nitrous Oxide is used in cars. Don't think that's the same thing. [QUOTE]

Sorry Pak, I don't think he mentioned anything about Nitrous.

BUT....what is compressed air. It is the air we breathe, compressed.........what is the biggest component in the air we breathe...??????NITROGEN!!!!

So yes, they are the same!!!!!

[Clowndog]

NO NO NO ,, SMEEE,,, tell these urchins whats what.
OK class,,, "Nitro" or Nitrogen is a inert compressed gas under very high pressure, It stays a gas in the paintball application. It is different from "compressed air" in that it is pure nitrogen usually "skimmed" off the top of pool of compressed liquid Nitrogen. However, none of that "liquid" is allowed in the paintball tanks.

Compressed air is just that,, taking a bunch of air and compressing it down to fit in a smaller bottle. Generally what we use now in paintball. How many of you are using SCUBA tanks to fill your paintball tanks?? Scuba tanks are filled with compressed air that has been filtered, dehydrated, cleaned and compressed and stuffed into our paintball tanks,.
Technically both gasses , perform exactly the same way,, but compressed "air" is now the most common due to the ease of filling and general abundance of "air".
there now ,, clear as mud???

[walbuls]

i heard it was because of the nitro releasing toxic gases in the indoor fields or somthing like that. So they stoped using it. Is this true or am i talking out my :moon: .

[Worr Angel]

i heard it was because of the nitro releasing toxic gases in the indoor fields or somthing like that. So they stoped using it. Is this true or am i talking out my :moon: .

Definitely not true. While breathing only N2 will kill you, it would take a lot to displace the oxygen in a building.

N2 is 100% Nitrogen
Compressed Air is 79% Nitrogen and 21% oxygen; there are other elements, but they are insignificant (<1%).

Same tank can hold both gases.

In the application for paintball, the physical properties are pretty much the same. Outside of that, they are completely different.